219 years ago · 1807

“I have thought it due to the Senate as well as to myself to explain to them the circumstances which have withheld from their knowledge, as they did from my own, a modification…”

— Thomas Jefferson

162 years ago · 1864

“Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged.”

— Abraham Lincoln

124 years ago · 1902

“Important though it is that we should have peace abroad, it is even more important that we should have peace at home.”

— Teddy Roosevelt